Width of the Whitehead double of a nontrivial knot

2018/03/06 by Zhenkun Li, Li, Zhenkun, Qilong Guo +1
Mathematics · Computer Science · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #semigroups and automata theory #Biochemical and Structural Characterization

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1803.02480

Abstract

In this paper, we prove that w(K) =4w(J), where w(.) is the width of a knot and K is the Whitehead double of a nontrivial knot J.

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